McAdoo and the Browns coaching stew. Good luck selling that.

Tuesday

Jan 7, 2014 at 12:41 PM

Chances are, local sports fans know more about Bob McAdoo, an old Cavaliers nemesis, than they know about Ben McAdoo, who will be interviewed by the Browns. Bob McAdoo is now a Miami Heat coach. What about this other guy?

Nothing against assistant coaches who do marvelous things with great quarterbacks, but ...Shouldn’t the Browns at least be thinking about assistants who have done more with less?• • • The Packers went 6-3 (including the playoff loss to San Francisco) with Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback.They were 2-5-1 without Rodgers.That’s not to say Ben McAdoo, the Green Bay quarterbacks coach who is interviewing with the Browns, isn’t a good coach. It simply ties to the first point.• • •It would be next to impossible for Jimmy Haslam to sell McAdoo as the next head coach, although “HC” ostensibly is what McAdoo is interview for. What Browns fan would go wild for a 36-year-old quarterbacks coach with no name outside coaching circles?This would involve a lot of trust for Joe Banner and Michael Lombardi, and trust is in short supply.Interviewing McAdoo makes more sense if he is being studied as an option to replace Norv Turner as offensive coordinator. However, McAdoo’s background is in a Holmgren-style offense, and it would be slightly maddening to have gone from a Belichick offense (with Mangini) in 2010 to a Holmgren offense (with Shurmur) in 2011 to Turner’s approach in 2013 back to the Holmgren stuff now.But then, the Holmgren system is an Andy Reid deal, and Joe Banner’s comfort zone is Andy Reid. But Lombardi’s is, or might be, Belichickian.Somehow, Haslam needs to keep this from being more of a convoluted mess than it already is.• • •Josh McDaniels (Tom Brady), Adam Gase (Peyton Manning) and McAdoo (Rodgers) have been around great quarterbacks, obviously. We hear many of you saying you are only interested if they bring Brady, Manning or Rodgers with them, as the case may be.• • •Green Bay blocked McAdoo from interviewing for coordinator jobs in 2012, at which point he was shifted from tight ends coach to quarterbacks coach.Green Bay types say the “block,” while perfectly legal, cost McAdoo a lot of money.McAdoo wasn’t paid what coordinators make. Now, the Packers don’t control him, and he might be eager to get out of town if only for a coordinator post.• • •What was it that Joe Banner said back when the temperature was closer to 100 than to zero-zip-nada?“We want to be playing better in the last three games than we did in the first three.”The words came back to bite Rob Chudzinski in the hip pocket, as we know. When you think about it, though, as a pal and I were doing over coffee today, the head coach of Ohio’s big team in the middle finished as poorly as Chudzinski in his last three games.Urban Meyer’s Buckeyes:• Barely beat heavy underdog Michigan, which, in its subsequent bowl game, got waxed by Kansas State.• Got pushed around by Michigan State.• Failed to defend the ghost of Woody Hayes against Clemson.My pal, who had a seat on the 50 for the Clemson game, agreed with me on a couple of things.One, Braxton Miller was physically gone (and probably mentally) and should not have been on the field in the late going. It had been Kenny Guiton time for a series or two.Two, Meyer’s stock has dropped. My own observation: His stock has not dropped so much that we do not think he would be a better Browns head coaching hire than many alternatives.• • •True, Meyer’s 12-2 record as opposed to Chudzinski’s 4-12 makes any parallel-drawing slightly ludicrous. Chud did, however, play a tougher schedule.• • •

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